[CPEO-IRF] Soil testing at Groton (CT) sub base

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contractors Begin Testing Soil At Sub Base For Contaminants

By JUDY BENSON
New London Day
July 30, 2005

Groton - With a jackhammer's rattle and a needle's precision, the
machine known as a Geoprobe bore into the asphalt parking lot behind one
of the torpedo shops at the Naval Submarine Base Friday morning to
extract soil and gravel from four feet below. 

It was the 26th and final tennis ball-sized hole left by the Geoprobe
after two days of work at the site by Tetra Tech ECI, the Navy
contractor hired to exhume soil samples as part of the project to clean
up contaminants around the torpedo shops. The samples were brought up in
a plastic tube that had been inserted inside a hollow-stem auger that
was driven into the earth. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=8ABC81F3-B8C8-4DAB-84D2-3C5F706FACC4

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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